Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

There are many reasons to found a startup. There are many reasons to work at a startup. But there’s only one reason your company got funded. Liquidity. ——-. The Good News. To most founders a startup is not a job, but a calling. But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. Traditional lenders (banks) think that startups are too risky for a traditional bank loan.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2016

By Nick Goode, VP of Cloud Product Management at Sage One. Wealth has historically been viewed as financial success in business that translates to success in life. Money, real estate, investments, and “stuff” like cars and expensive vacations — if you’ve got these things, you’re doing well for yourself… right? Perhaps it’s time we recognized that the wealth game is changing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. I’m not recommending that you saturate your discussions with lingo, but responding with a blank stare once-too-often won’t convince anyone that you can build the next world-changing business or outpace the market.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 16, 2016

I get this question all the time from friends and peers in the industry, “Why only focus on mobile? Why not have a specialty in mobile, but allow Dragon Army to do other areas of digital marketing, like social media and web development?” It’s a fair question. We could grow faster if we did more than just mobile, for sure. And I’m nothing if not focused on growth.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Today, we are excited to re-release an updated Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech ! This guide is a living and breathing site, so we make a bit of a push to update it on an annual basis to keep things fresh. I wanted to point out a couple things in the updated guide, but the general theme is that we are simply seeing more, bigger, and better things happening here in Boston.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2016

By Greg Waldorf, CEO of Invoice2go. Ever struggle to stay organized and keep your operation running smooth when you’re always on the go? Technology has changed how we work, making it possible to get work done from anywhere. While you may no longer need an office, the ‘back office’ part of your business never sleeps, and how you manage it must be as mobile as you are.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2016

So, you want to launch your own business? Well, you’d better make sure you’re serious about this because it’s a lot of work. There are so many different aspects involved in running and launching a new startup. And it’s easy to overlook these and forget about them. Launching a startup can be scary, and you need to figure out how to thrive in a niche marketplace.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 16, 2016

The wires have recently been awash with news that US food delivery service SpoonRocket is shutting down. That’s a real shame, largely for their employees and investors (who put in $13.5m), but also because the product promise was amazing – sub $10 meals delivered in under ten minutes. That product promise is so amazing that the tech press wrote a lot about SpoonRocket even before they graduated from YC.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 16, 2016

In a hypercompetitive market, asking this daring question is the best way to differentiate your business from the rest, find consistent growth, and push
 yourself to continuously challenge the status quo.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2016

2016 was RVE’s 13th year producing events at and around SXSW Interactive (#SXSWi). Given our history with the event, I want to share my… Continue reading on Medium ».

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 16, 2016

You may not be in the search business, the hardware game, social media or logistics. Yet, we all compete with Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon or GAFA, as they are becoming known. We compete with them on the new set of expectations that everyone has. People expect to find what they are looking for on page one. People expect hardware that doesn’t need an instruction manual.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 16, 2016

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News It’s rare that a SXSW session gets a standing ovation but NASA’s Journey to Mars presentation Tuesday left a packed audience inspired and on their feet. NASA panelists made it clear that there is not, currently, a mission planned to Mars. Instead, preparations are being made on […] The post Journey to Mars Gets Standing Ovation at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 16, 2016

With a little bit of thought and local knowledge, bringing an American concept to Asia can generate huge returns.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 16, 2016

What’s the secret to a successful panel discussion at South by Southwest Interactive? Puppies and cookies and a talk about happiness. At the panel Designing Happiness on Saturday, Lippencott, Disney and SoulCycle had huge lines waiting to fill their 500 seat room. It was one of the highest attended panel’s of the day not including […] The post People Just Want to be Happy at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2016

March 17, 2016: The SXSW Accelerator pitches used a new tool called sli.do to gather questions from the audience, and the emcee of the… Continue reading on Medium ».

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SiliconHills

MARCH 16, 2016

By HOJUN CHOI Reporter with Silicon Hills News SXSW goers listened to experts and leaders from the tech industry discuss the intersections between new innovations and government policy during Innovation Policy Day on Tuesday. The event, which featured four different panels, was organized by the Consumer Technology Association, which provides its members market research, education […] The post Innovation Policy Day at SXSW Highlights the Need for Cooperation and Collaboration appeared first

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2016

I feel we need to nurture our burgeoning startup youth with reality. Here are my truths. Continue reading on Medium ».

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 16, 2016

In a recent article in Forbes, I tackle the age old debate about whether it is better being an opportunistic entrepreneur or following your business plan. Read my post here. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Is it Better to be Opportunistic or to Follow a Plan? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 16, 2016

Will Your Product Launch Fly? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Pat Flynn. You have a great idea for a product or service. You sweat and toil and crank out your shiny new baby and launch it to the world. Only thing is, it turns out the world doesn’t need that thing you just spent several months of your life building.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

NPS is a valuable customer experience tool, and companies everywhere are using it to improve their experience and boost revenue. But there are many misconceptions and misuses of NPS, and this piece will address those, in addition to showing you how you can actually get value from the tool. See, when people lean on NPS like it’s a magic number, it doesn’t do much good.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

As we head into 2016, we leave behind a year of robust trends for venture capital—or “VC”—funding. In coming months, many entrepreneurs are looking for the best sources to help fund the startups they have planned. Whether the end goal is to exit, be acquired, or have enough in the bank to launch, it’s important for entrepreneurs to find the companies that can help them do it.

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Brandanew

MARCH 16, 2016

As a Startup owner of a company that creates original content for brands & individuals, the best part about my job is meeting people from varying fields online and in person. And listening. Content Marketing for beginners is always a challenge. I want to know the barriers you face in having a sustained strategy in place for social media and the millennial generation.

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